“DeepSeek Made it Even Harder for US AI Companies to Ever Reach Profitability” by Garrison

This is a link post. This is the full text of a post from "The Obsolete Newsletter," a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race to Build Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to date with my work. I'm in San Francisco until February 27th or so. If you'd like to meet up or tell me about some cool event, email me at tgarrisonlovely [at] gmail [dot] com. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei may have divulged a big secret with worrying implications for AI firms like his own and OpenAI. Last month, Chinese startup DeepSeek released R1, an AI model rivalling OpenAI's flagship o1 model on key benchmarks but at a fraction of the cost — about 27-times cheaper. This sent shockwaves through the market. AI [...] The original text contained 1 image which was described by AI. --- First published: February 19th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/crzuEFphTSv6EwYns/deepseek-made-it-even-harder-for-us-ai-companies-to-ever --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.